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Re: Floppy gone bad
From:
Herbert Graf <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:17:50 -0500
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> Problem is... floppy drive will not boot a Win98 boot disk.  It
> will boot a
> Lilo disk, though.... huh?  I give up.  It's a 3.5" 1.44mb drive
> and I have
> 3 to try... all did the same thing... spin, spin, spin, etc.
> It's not the 'reversed cable' problem, this is a BIOS thing.

     Never seen that, have you tried a different boot disk? Anyways I'm
wondering why you are trying to boot from the floppy? Win98 is CD bootable,
you should be able to boot your system using the CD. TTYL

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